Prairie serves as Executive Director of the American Indian Business Leaders organization, the only native non-profit dedicated to increasing the representation of American Indian students in business and entrepreneurial ventures. Prairie grew up on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in eastern Montana and is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe. After college, she worked in Washington DC for the Department of Health and Human Services, providing contract management services to Native American communities in the lower 48 states as well as American Samoa, Alaska, and Hawaii. Additionally, she served on multiple federal review panels that successfully awarded over $5 million in governmental contracts to support economic development within native communities. She worked for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe as the Comptroller for two years, delivering on-time audits as well as providing oversight for $34 million dollars in federal funding. She graduated from Rocky Mountain College, with a bachelor’s degree in business, and from the University of Montana, with a master’s degree in business administration.
Prairie Bighorn-Blount
Executive Director, American Indigenous Leaders
